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The need to separate the executive and political party authorities
Diokpa Dike Odu| African Examiner | Posted: Feb 21, 2011
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It could be described as uncouth, unexpected that someone who is supposed to
be a leader of a party could be partisan where he is supposed not to, and losing
control where that need not be. Where he is supposed to take specific action he
fails. It is high time any ruling party at the federal, state or local government
levels stopped allowing the President, the governor or the LG Chairman
respectively to be the leader of the party. Party affairs should be left to the Party
Chairman and his Committees.

Look at what is happening in Ogun State for instance where President Goodluck
Jonathan’s godfather, former President Obasanjo is from.  A ruling party could
not have a functional House of Assembly and in their recent PDP primaries,
conducted two parallel congresses that produced different candidates.
The governorship primary was even the worse with President Jonathan (Minister
of Commerce, Mr. Martin Kuye), leading a rebellion by heading unrecognized
faction that the former President Obasanjo, yet that is the one that is taken as
authentic. This action alone is ripe enough for the President to sack the Minister
but he would not. In Anambra for instance, PDP, though not in control of the
Executive, has remained unsettled and operates parallel party executives.

Again the President and his Vice had to travel down to their home states to
influence the outcome of the governorship primaries. Is it not an irony that the
President that supposed to be neutral must have taken side? Absolute power
corrupts absolutely; that is what we see today in various parties in Nigeria where
the president or the governor or the LG Chairman is the leader of the party. It is
dictatorship and autocracy at work. The good advocacy is that Chairman of a
Party oversees the Party while the President, the Governor and the LG
Chairman oversees the executive governance.

Furthermore, the three levels of governance (Federal, State and Local
governments) should be independent of each other. So also it is necessary that
the three tiers of governments (the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary)
should enjoy autonomous funding and be independently run. An independent
Electoral body must conduct unbiased elections that would produce the
Executive and the Legislature, while an independent body should be empowered
to look over the Judiciary.

Diokpa Dike Odu, Ozomagala Street, ONITSHA, Anambra State
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